Ted Sanders, the president of the Denver-based Education
Commission of the States, has been elected to the board of directors of
Plato Learning Inc.

Mr. Sanders, 62, who served as the deputy U.S. secretary of education
during the first Bush administration, will serve a three-year term on
the Plato board, which he began last month.

The Bloomington, Minn.-based Plato Learning provides online
curriculum, assessments, and professional development for K-12
educators.

Thomas L. Goodman, a former superintendent of the San Diego
Unified and Santa Clara County school districts in California, who is
serving as an education adviser to gubernatorial candidate Arnold
Schwarzenegger, has been named the chief education officer for the
Options For Youth charter schools group.

As chief education officer, Mr. Goodman, 69, will oversee efforts to
improve curriculum and programs for the Pasadena, Calif.-based group
and its sister organization, Opportunities for Learning. The two
organizations manage 10 charter schools in the state that are for
teenagers deemed at risk of dropping out of school.

Mr. Goodman served as the director of U.S. Department of Defense
Schools for Europe and Asia from 1990 to 1997.